Days and Years Questions and Answers

Answer: C

World AIDS Day is observed on 1 December, and has been since 1988.

It was the first global health day, proposed by two WHO information officers. The red ribbon has been its symbol since 1991.

Answer: A

World Environment Day is celebrated on 5 June.

The date marks the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. Each year a different country hosts it under a chosen theme.

Answer: C

National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February.

It marks C.V. Raman's discovery of the Raman effect on that date in 1928, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

Answer: D

International Labour Day is 1 May.

It commemorates the Haymarket affair in Chicago in 1886, during the campaign for the eight-hour working day. It has been observed in India since 1923, when it was first marked at Madras.

Answer: A

International Literacy Day is observed on 8 September, declared by UNESCO in 1966.

Each year takes a theme, and the UNESCO literacy prizes are awarded on the day.

Answer: B

1994–2004 was the First International Decade of the World's Indigenous People.

Its theme was 'Indigenous people: partnership in action', and its main achievement was the establishment of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2000.

Answer: A

2005–2014 was the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

Led by UNESCO, it sought to build the principles of sustainable development into teaching at every level, so that education would help form the values the transition requires.

Answer: A

2005–2014 was also the Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People.

It followed the first decade of 1994–2004, with the theme 'Partnership for action and dignity', and covered the period in which the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted in 2007.

Answer: C

1997–2006 was the First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty.

It followed the World Summit for Social Development at Copenhagen in 1995, and its theme was 'Eradicating poverty is an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of humankind'.

Answer: D

World Day of Social Justice is observed on 20 February.

The UN General Assembly designated it in 2007 and it has been marked since 2009, promoting employment, social protection and decent work as the foundations of social justice.